Opinion
Balochistan File
by: Saba Imtiaz & Madeeha Ansari
Date: November 18, 2013
The roots of violence in Balochistan can be traced to multiple sources, from political unrest, to sectarian strife, to a severe development deficit. In two parallel analyses, JI provides an...
Opinion
Year in Review 2010: Pakistan’s Continuing Flood Crisis
by: Erum Haider
Date: November 18, 2013
The monsoon floods that hit Pakistan in July 2010 killed 1,752 people and affected nearly 18.1 million across the length of the country. Many of the deaths were reported in...
Opinion
Rule of Law
by: Erum Haider
Date: November 18, 2013
No society has ever attained a perfect realization of the rule of law. But when plotting 35 countries on an objective scale, Pakistan is dangerously close to perfect failure, scoring...
Opinion
National Plans for Reconstruction and Rehabilitation
by: Nadeem Ahmed
Date: November 18, 2013
In the days and weeks after the floods it has been suggested that the government's response was lacking, or that coordination mechanisms were weak. These are unfair remarks - the...
Opinion
A guilty witness to the flood exodus
by: Nasim Zehra
Date: November 18, 2013
It was around sunset and I was watching the floodwater spread to Tando Hafiz Shah. The small town in southern Sindh with an estimated population of 50,000 was almost completely...
Opinion
Pakistan Flood Recovery: Can Zardari Deliver Aid?
by: Shuja Nawaz
Date: November 18, 2013
The current flood in Pakistan is the worst ever-natural disaster to strike that country even as it is fighting an existential threat from a major Taliban insurgency inside its Western...
Opinion
Democracy at the brink?
by: Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi
Date: November 18, 2013
Daily Times 26th September, 2010 Democracy is a joint exercise of different state institutions and the political class with an emphasis on constitutionalism, the rule of law and respect for democratic...
Opinion
Year in Review 2010: Attacks on Shrines and Education
Date: November 11, 2013
In 2010, Pakistan witnessed a startling increase in the scale of attacks on shrines of Sufi saints throughout the country. Attacking shrines is not a new phenomenon in Pakistan "”...
Publications
Extremism Watch: Mapping Conflict Trends in Pakistan 2011 – 2012
Date: November 1, 2013
2012 saw previous patterns of violence against religious minorities continue to be repeated, often with greater intensity. This report documents the increase in bombings at Sufi shrines, the rising spate of Hazara...
Publications
Can the Peace Process Move Past the Doha Collapse?
Date: November 1, 2013
As the 12th year of the Afghan war draws to an impasse, there are signs of an abstract convergence about peace in the country, although many of the components of...
